A Brief CNN article comparing the US-Filipino conflict with Iraw and Afghanistan



Required for c. April 22, 2010:
Robert Kagan, “Cowboy Nation” – The New Republic, Online, October 16, 2006
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18796

Andrew Bacevich - “Is This The 'End Of American Exceptionalism'?”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94505191

Excerpts from President Bush


"Let Your Enemies Crumble: The US forgot the lessons of the cold war when it came to Iraq"Peter Beinart, Time Magazine, June 5, 2006 (May 29, 2006 on-line)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1198924,00.html


National Issues Options

“Is Western aid making a difference in Africa? Two US economists debate the value of antipoverty efforts.”. Danna Harman, Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 2007

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0823/p12s01-woaf.html

Should you want to dig further, examine the following sites:

Interventions 1798-1993 - http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm

A nice “crib sheet” - “Isolation to Intervention” – Notes page - http://library.thinkquest.org/17126/chapter/20.html